[ubl-fpsc] progress on xpaths

["Stephen Green" <stephen_green@bristol-city.gov.uk>]

Hi all,

Just been trying to create some xpath documentation for the Office Invoice scenario and I'm having serious reservations about it. Granted, a major part of the purpose of this is to highlight any problems now, well before 1.0. However, there are far more problems than I'd expected and I can only complete about half of the invoice scenario. I just wonder how soon we might get these problems addressed as it will not be worth documenting anything until they are. I've passed the issues on to LCSC and will continue to look at the other documents. Perhaps if someone would like to like at the joinery scenario so we can compare notes - and if they would submit issues to LCSC and copy in FPSC. 

My main problems for the invoice are:

lack of clarity over how to cater for order references

the loss of the delivery details (address and date)

multiple entities with similar and vague descriptions causing lack of clarity over which will be used for the required data (e.g. what difference between item base price and line base price? is base price always the same as 'unti price'? what difference between Line/InvoicedQuantity and Line/Item/PackQuantity? etc)

omission of party name

plus the container issue will mean changes

There may be other problems to be found with the other documents so I'll keep on with them - but just to say
a) I'm not likely to produce useful xpaths yet
b) I'm unclear about the timing for getting these corrected and how soon we will see new schemas, etc

All the best

Steve